Tim Hockenberry 2/14
Corinne West & The Posse
With
The Stairwell Sisters 2/28
 
 
February Shows 2009
 
 

Here is a tune..

Serpentine Fire

Wayne Wallace & His Latin Dance Ensemble
Friday February 13th
Mill Valley Masonic Events Center
19 Corte Madera Ave. Mill Valley

When it comes to truly capturing the essence of Latin in performance, composition and arranging, few are the equal of Wayne Wallace. Recent placements in the DownBeat magazine polls have spread word internationally on this rare talent whom San Francisco jazz fans have embraced the past few decades for his strong musicianship and involvement on the scene there. Word, too, continues to get out on Wallace's exemplary service as trombonist and/or arranger and producer to world-class musicians including Count Basie, Benny Carter, Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Pete Escovedo, Earth, Wind & Fire, Aretha Franklin, Lionel Hampton, Joe Henderson, Lena Horne, Bobby Hutcherson, Tito Puente, Sonny Rollins, Carlos Santana, John Santos, Sheila E., McCoy Tyner, and Stevie Wonder.

His music sounds like ice-cold sparkling wine bubbling in our summer-hot New Year's Eve.” — J.C.Celmer, Rádio Universidade FM - Rio Grande, Brazil

“No matter what or where he plays, Wallace brings not just musicianship but also that rare quality of music as the means to uplift listeners' spirits to a higher level.”
— Larry Kelp, East Bay Express

“Wayne Wallace will go down in the annals of San Francisco Bay Area history as one of the great musicians of the new millennium.” — Jesse “Chuy” Varela, Latin Beat Magazine

Doors @ 8:00 Show @ 8:30
$20 advance $25 Reserved

To buy tickets:
Famous4 415-388-2550
96 Throckmorton Ave. Mill Valley
Online: click here
Via Phone with visa or MC 415.389.5072

                 
 
       
Tim Hockenberry
Saturday February 14th
Mill Valley Masonic Events Center,
19 Corte Madera Ave. Mill Valley, CA 94941

         
 
    Tim Hockenberry is already well known to Bay Area audiences and has a growing reputation as a one of the great innovative singers and compelling song stylists in America today. He is somewhere between Tom Waits and David Gray with a Bruce Hornsby instrumental feel. Tim’s successful release of “Mostly Dylan” was recently followed by his new About Records release "Back In Your Arms Again". ey.

When Tim Hockenberry sings and plays piano, you hear the R&B of his Detroit influences, the rock of his generation and the jazz that he thought he’d lost as a teenager. Like a handful of blues and gospel-based singers, Tim has the pipes and phrasing that lets him sing anything – the phonebook! – and makes you catch your breath and stop doing whatever you’re doing to hear what comes next. Every song he touches, guileless Broadway ballad to jagged-edge rock, becomes a testimony to the human experience of pain, joy and love – musically transformed into a kind of pleasure that you will seek again and again.

Doors @ 8:00 Show @ 8:30
$20 advance $25 Reserved

To buy tickets:
Famous4 415-388-2550
96 Throckmorton Ave. Mill Valley
Online: click here
Via Phone with visa or MC 415.389.5072

Here is a tune to enjoy.. Girl
 
 


A couple of tunes

Second Sight / Roses to Rust

 

Corinne West and the Posse
The Stairwell Sisters

The Lark Theater
549 Magnolia in historic downtown Larkspur
Saturday February 28th


There's magic in Corinne West's voice. It aches and breaks. It soars. It's clear, penetrating and washed in emotion. When she wraps that voice around songs as sublime as those on her latest CD, Second Sight, she's spellbinding. That's because she's unlocked the secret that so many singers spend entire careers looking for and never find. She knows giving listeners an unfettered glimpse into the raw and wild places of the soul is part of her job requirement. So she sings the story of life unfolding- sometimes brutal, sometimes beautiful, but always honest.

Doors @ 8:00 Show @ 8:30
$20 advance $25 Reserved

To buy tickets:
The Lark
549 Magnolia Ave in historic downtown Larkspur
415-924-5111
Online: click here
Via Phone with visa or MC 415.389.5072
               
 
                         
 

The Stairwell Sisters

Producer Lloyd Maines recalls hearing The Stairwell Sisters for the first time: “I happened upon this tribe of women musicians, playing old-time string music, with the power and excitement of a great rock band.” Tribe of women indeed. Evie Ladin explains what holds sway with the sisters, themes similarly found in one of their early influences, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: “not exactly the sweet and tender ladies, but the stand up for yourself and face the world kind of women.”

Which is exactly the kind of women that make up The Stairwell Sisters. Evie, Stephanie Prausnitz. Lisa Berman, Martha Hawthorne, and Sue Sandlin are career women, organizers, activists and mamas; making ends meet working and living in San Francisco. They also happen to crank out acoustic, old-time music with a punk-rock intensity. Somehow, between raising children, working and releasing records, they’ve taken their band to some rather well-regarded places – appearing on A Prairie Home Companion, festival stages from Lincoln Center (NYC) and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (SF) to Celtic Connections (UK), and many points in between.

Here is a Stairwell Sister Sampler